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BOOKS FOR PARENTS

RECOMMENDED READING FOR PARENTS

Based on years of experience in the classroom and as parents and grandparents, the teachers and staff recommend the following books for our families. If you read a book, please let us know what you think! We are always interested in partnering with our families to discuss child rearing.

You can purchase a book through your preferred vendor; however, if you purchase a book through Amazon (by clicking on the title below), Redeemer Day School receives a small portion of the sale, which will go toward school and classroom supplies for our children. Thank you and happy reading!

List of books is in alphabetical order by the author’s last name

Praying the Scriptures for Your Children: Discover How to Pray God’s Purpose for Their Lives
By Jodie Berndt

Parenting the Wholehearted Child: Captivating Your Child’s Heart with God’s Extravagant Grace
By Jeannie Cunnion

Bringing Up Boys
By James Dobson

Bringing Up Girls: Practical Advice and Encouragement for Those Shaping the Next Generation of Women
By James Dobson

Parenting with Scripture: A Topical Guide for Teachable Moments
By Kara G. Durbin

Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World
By Jill Rigby

Raising Unselfish Children in a Self-Absorbed World
By Jill Rigby

Making the “Terrible” Twos Terrific
By John Rosemond

Parenting by The Book: Biblical Wisdom for Raising Your Child
By John Rosemond

Shepherding a Child’s Heart
By Tedd Tripp

Shepherding a Child’s Heart: Parent’s Handbook
By Tedd Tripp

Everyday Talk: Talking Freely and Naturally about God with Your Children
By John Younts

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

RECOMMENDED READING FOR CHILDREN

Daily reading to children is encouraged and brings a world of imagination and wonder to life!  Our teachers and staff have years of reading to little ones and have favorite books – ones that they love and ones that their children, grandchildren and students have loved.  Below is a list of the some of their favorite books.

If you do not currently have one of these books and would like to buy it for your child, we encourage you to purchase it through our website (by clicking on the book title) as a part of Redeemer Day School’s Amazon Affiliate Program.  When books are purchased through our web site as a part of this program, the school receives a portion of the purchase back, which is used by Redeemer Day School to purchase school supplies and related needs.  Happy reading!

A Child’s Garden of Verses
By Robert Louis Stevenson

A Is for Annabelle
By Tasha Tudor

Amelia Bedelia
By Peggy Parish

Are You My Mother? (Beginner Books)
By P.D. Eastman

Audrey Bunny
By Angie Smith

Butterfly (Watch Me Grow)
By DK Publishing

Charlotte’s Web
By E. B. White

Cowboy Small
By Lois Lenski

Curious George Books
By H. A. Rey

Dr. Seuss’s Beginner Book Collection (Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish, Green Eggs and Ham, Hop on Pop, Fox in Socks)
By Dr. Seuss

Hermie, a Common Caterpillar (Max Lucado’s Hermie & Friends)
By Max Lucado

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle

John Philip Duck
By Patricia Polacco

Madeline Series
By Ludwig Bemelman

Make Way for Ducklings (Viking Kestrel picture books)
By Robert McCloskey

The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook
By Joyce Lankester Brisley

Miss Fannie’s Hat
By Jan Karon

Mr. Marble’s Moose
By D. J. May

My ABC Bible Verses: Hiding God’s Word in Little Hearts
By Susan Hunt

One Smile
By Cindy McKinley

Pepito the Brave
By Scott Beck

The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Peter Rabbit Naturally Better)
By Beatrix Potter

Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving
By Eric Metaxas

Stuart Little
By E. B. White

The Berenstain Bears: God Loves You! (Berenstain Bears/Living Lights)
By Mike Berenstain

The Boxcar Children Books 1-4
By Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Evergreen Wood
By Alan Perry

Pooh’s Library: Winnie-The-Pooh, The House At Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six (Pooh Original Edition)
By A. A. Milne

The Little Engine That Could mini
By Watty Piper

The Little Fir Tree
By Margaret Wise Brown

The Little House 70th Anniversary Edition with CD
By Virginia Lee Burton

The Mitten
By Jan Brett

The Real Mother Goose
By Blanche Fisher Wright

The Star-Spangled Banner
By Peter Spier

The Tale of Three Trees: A Traditional Folktale
By Angela Elwell Hunt

The Three Questions [Based on a story by Leo Tolstoy]
By Jon J. Muth

Thunder Cake
By Patricia Polacco

The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
By Joel Chandler Harris

Violet Comes to Stay (Mitford for Children, Book 1)
By Jan Karon

Violet Goes to the Country (Mitford for Children, Book 2)
By Jan Karon

The Children’s Book of Virtues
By William J. Bennett

CDs FOR CHILDREN